How much revenue did Mido and Di make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mido and Di sell?

Q: How many copies did Mido and Di sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 450 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 450 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Mido and Di and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mido and Di's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–6.9M

best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like Mido and Di

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–6.9M copies

≈ $53.8M–$83.2M after Steam's cut

from ~85k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Third-Person Shooter (8 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Resident Evil 5 2009	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–7.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $23.7M–$63.8M after Steam's cut $43.1M–$98.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	68k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction
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